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Jaxon VandenBrook returned to compete in high school swimming after swimming on the club level a year ago. He wrapped up his career at the WIAA Division 2 state meet.

Ethan Johnson's push for a return to the WIAA Division 2 state championships nearly never started. It ended with the Silver Eagles senior on the medal stand.

The sharpshooter scored 31 points against Portage. Here's how other sports played out Friday night.

The woman who was injured was taken to a local hospital for treatment, Madison police said.

The driver was taken to a hospital and processed for OWI, then jailed on tentative charges of possession of fentanyl, felony bail jumping, resisting and a probation hold, police said.

The two men are in custody in Missouri and facing extradition back to Wisconsin for their initial court appearances, authorities said.

Fire damages Dane County plastics firm; no cause yet

The provision Democrats suspected was a GOP attempt to protect their top legislator was, in fact, something that nonpartisan legislative bill drafters put in the bill.

A local bio-tech giant is giving eight Badgers athletes career counseling and other benefits through a new NIL program soon to be announced.

The transmission competition bill has been opposed by consumer advocates and the free-market conservative group Americans for Prosperity.

These teams have been through the ringer battling top-ranked teams, but still found success as postseason nears on Feb. 20.

American Girl will close its Middleton corporate offices by spring, parent company Mattel said, and will cut 30 jobs as a result.

The Badgers are among four teams contacting the Mount Horeb sophomore. Here's why schools are showing interest in his game.

One business expects to open this month and the other two will open in the summer.

Hovde had long been rumored to run for the seat currently held Baldwin, of Madison, who first won her seat back in 2012 — the year Hovde came up short in the GOP primary.

Didion Milling had "a pervasive culture of regulatory defiance and dishonesty" leading to the 2017 explosion and during the investigation that followed, a federal judge said.

Dane County last year spent $1.9 million to upgrade the software system that controls the entire network of 141 sirens.

Casey Rabach was content with a quiet life after his playing career ended. Here's how football led him back to his alma mater.

The Badgers have lost their last three road games, while the Hawkeyes have two straight wins at home.

Bob Groter was killed just before noon on a Thursday in Vilas County in 2023 when he was struck head-on by a speeding, drunken snowmobile driver.